Yogurt, a meeting assistant from Y Combinator-backed Frigade, records calls and runs transcription and summarization locally. It captures microphone and system audio without adding a bot to the call, while recordings, transcripts, and generated notes remain on the user’s computer.

Frigade has released the source repository under the MIT license, alongside desktop builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The project had 74 GitHub stars at the time of the source page. Its Electron application uses TypeScript, whisper.cpp for speech recognition, and llama.cpp for local language-model inference.

Audio stays on the device

Many meeting assistants either add a participant bot to Zoom or Google Meet or send captured audio to cloud infrastructure. Yogurt instead records the microphone and audio playing through the computer, allowing it to work with video calls, phone calls routed through the device, and in-person conversations.

Frigade says meeting content remains local after the required models have been downloaded. Transcription and summaries can then run offline, although model downloads, application downloads, and updates still require network access. Organizations with strict security requirements should review the source, packaged builds, storage behavior, and update process before deployment.